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Another excellent performance leading from the front from Holder - 4 wickets so far.
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He's still no Faheem Ashraf though.
Holder's recent stats are nearly 1980s Imran Khan level. Doesn't get the adulation he deserves being outside the Big 3.
Holder averages 11.80 in his last 10 Tests. No bowler has averaged less than 13 over a 10-Test period since Tony Lock in the 1950s. Other than him the only other bowler since the First World War to have done it is Jim Laker.
Holder's recent stats are nearly 1980s Imran Khan level. Doesn't get the adulation he deserves being outside the Big 3.
From BBC cricket
From BBC cricket
He can.
He is a handy batsman who bowls really well.
Poor man's Kallis.
Makes a world XI atm:
Agarwal
??
Kohli
Smith
Stokes
De Kock
Jadeja
Holder
Cummins
Lyon
Bumrah
Would be mine, use the all rounders available at the moment. Can have a wicket taking spinner in SENA conditions as well as in Asia
Babar and Labuschagne would make a current world xi imo. I would also only play one of Stokes or Holder depending on the conditions (mostly Holder)
What would your team look like?
Pretty similar except for the changes I mentioned and Southee in for Bumrah. I’m 50/50 with Kohli Babar based on current form but I’ve gone with Babar.What would your team look like?
Pretty similar except for the changes I mentioned and Southee in for Bumrah. I’m 50/50 with Kohli Babar based on current form but I’ve gone with Babar.
1. Mayank Agarwal
2. Rohit Sharma
3. Marnus Labuschagne
4. Steve Smith
5. Babar Azam
6. Quinton De Kock
7. Jason Holder
8. Ravindra Jadeja
9. Pat Cummins
10. Nathan Lyon
11. Tim Southee
Batting all the way through as Southee bats a teensy bit, with 5 excellent bowling options. In English conditions I will sub Jadeja with Stokes.
Nice team. Fill that Southee is being overrated though. If looking for a swing bowler Anderson is just better, and there are many better all conditions bowlers floating around
I’d take Mitchell Marsh and Faheem Ashraf ahead of him.
A batting average of 30 is too low to be a batting all-rounder (Sobers/Kallis) or a balanced all-rounder (Imran, Kapil Dev, Botham).
It puts you down in Bowling all-rounder territory, with Wasim Akram, Richard Hadlee or Shaun Pollock.
But a bowling all-rounder needs to take more than three wickets per Test.
Kallis was the opposite, a brilliant batsman who bowled a bit.
Can't be compared to holder
He'd walk into the Pakistan team definitely.
Although some would say he's not phaast enough.
If I make a world XI of active players, does Jason Holder find a place??
Warner
Rohit/Latham/Elgar/Mayank
Smith
Kohli
Root
Stokes
Qdk(wkt)
Ashwin/Jadeja
Cummins
Rabada
Anderson/Broad
Is it a test xi with Rohit Sharma opening?
Yeah, he does. Averages 45 in test cricket and made Rabada look like a Srinath when he came to India last year. Philander looked like Kallis as well.
I think Holder would be ineffective in Asia. He is only good for SENA pitches.
He has a 5 Fer in sharjah and a 5 fer in india
Holder has slightly over 2.5 times the total wickets compared to matches he has played. He should look to improve that. I think it is because he was a mediocre bowler for about 2-3 years early on.
But to be precise, Flintoff has about 225 wickets in 75 tests and Cairns has 220 wickets in 60 tests. So, Holder is expected to hit that level as a bowler. That 25 AVG is kinda misleading right now because if he was that good, he would have taken more number of wickets and won more matches for Windies. Good lower order batsmen with 3 hundreds already in 40 tests.
Stokes is better. He is similar to Shakib maybe who is obviously better in ODIs.
Anyone else there to join this trio?? Maybe Ravindra Jadeja!
Kallis took 297 test wickets. I will be impressed if Holder gets as many.
Kallis also played 160 test matches.
Are you part of the, say, Cook > Gavaskar ideology
Jason Holder averages 28 with the Dukes ball.
With the Kookaburra, its 67. It's not that he can't bowl with the Kookaburra - his record in Sri Lanka and UAE is outstanding.
In the Southern Hemisphere more shockingly though given you'd think his height would be suited to quicker and bouncier pitches, he averages 122.
Holder is really good against poor lineups and really poor against good lineups. Apart from bounce his bowling is completely harmless.
His record vs England is an anomaly.
He can miss a trick with the captaincy too. Watching the highlights of Day 1 of the NZ Test and so many edges are travelling through the slips.
Get as many catchers in, you're 1-0 down in the series bowling on a greentop.
His purple patch appears to have ended. His batting is still good. His bowling though only suits conditions that favor swing and seam. NZ are very good against visiting pacers in their backyard apart from Australia who own them every time.
He would walk into Pakistan side but not really into every side especially Aus, SA, NZ and England who have plenty of allrounders. Australian tail is good enough to compensate for an allrounder though. Pattinson, Starc and Cummins are very good with the bat for tailenders.
Interesting assessment. Lets look at his competition in these four countries
Aus - Nathan Coulternile, Cameron Green, Mitch Marsh
SA - Chris Morris, Ngidi (if they play only three seamers), one of the middle order bats
NZ - Colin De Grondhomme, Daryl Mitchell, Tim Southee, one of the middle order bats
ENG - Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes
Eng
I think him and Chris Woakes are actually pretty similar in what you can expect them to deliver. Holder perhaps better bowler across conditions. Ben Stokes definitely appears to have hit a crazy level of form. Would get picked ahead of Holder in most sides, you imagine. Therefore, at the very least, not an automatic pick.
Aus
If we set Cameron Green aside, and Jason Holder could bat at 6, then he would be a welcome addition to Australia. They are desperate for a fifth bowling option who can bat in the top 6. Hence why Mitch Marsh has played so many games. So Holder would be an automatic pick. Anyway, the middle order slots for Australia are hardly settled. Travis Head, Matt Wade and Cameron Green currently battling out for the spots. So he could take one of those spots and give Australia a lot of balance. He would have to bat in the top six though, so that would probably be overrreaching a bit, but better than Mitch Marsh, so an auto pick until Cameron Green establishes himself.
SA
Same goes here. Automatic pick. De Kock bats at 6, so he can bat at 7 and give much needed balance. No real competition in the pace bowling a/r slot now that Philander has retired.
NZ
Would pick him. Another side with a keeper in the top six, so Holder only has to bat seven. De Grondhomme tried to fill this role and Holder is better than him. Now they have Daryl Mitchell, who I haven’t seen or heard about yet.
As for the rest -
Pakistan automatic pick. Sri Lanka - automatic pick and would be best seamer. BD - auto pick.
India, Pandya ahead of him for his batting ability, but Holder could still be a third seamer for India with Bumrah and Shami. Kind of Bhuvneshwar role. But perhaps not an automatic pick.
Jason Holder averages 28 with the Dukes ball.
With the Kookaburra, its 67. It's not that he can't bowl with the Kookaburra - his record in Sri Lanka and UAE is outstanding.
In the Southern Hemisphere more shockingly though given you'd think his height would be suited to quicker and bouncier pitches, he averages 122.
You seem really short sighted here. NZ have Grandhomme who has been doing exceptionally good and is way more consistent than Holder. Plus they have James Neesham, Corey Anderson, Colin Munro, Santner, Mitchell and a few others. You ask any Kiwi, they may be happy with what they already have.
In England, no chance. Woakes is way more consistent than Holder.
In SA, you are probably forgetting Pretorius, Phehlukwayo, and a few others in their domestic system, but quota system messes their selection.
In Australia, they have Cam Green, Hilton Cartwright, Marcus Stoinis, Mitch Marsh, but they are more of batting allrounders. Holder is a bowling allrounder, he is not good enough to bat at no.6 in Australian or English or SA team.